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02-10-2012, 02:28 PM
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Iran Cuts Internet Access
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An individual inside the country confirmed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo email are no longer available. Ditto for Facebook. So far, the government has not made any announcement about the service interruption.
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02-10-2012, 02:40 PM
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Last month the country's information minister told the Islamic Republic News Agency that a firewalled national Internet would soon become operational. There was no word on when the government might plan to throw the switch on what essentially would be a vast "intranet," but it could happen any day. And that prospect has cyber activists in Iran concerned. It would give the government a hand up in its cyber cat-and-mouse battle with opponents.
Right now, if Iran now blocks proxy servers and VPN connections for more than a few days, companies with branches or headquarters in the country are cut off from communicating with fellow employees around the world other than by telephone. That forces the government to open the spigot for everyone. Once the new network goes into effect, ordinary Iranians would wake up to a more censored Internet.
"I don't know the the infrastructure that they will use but I don't think we have a way out of that one," said the Iranian person. "We are getting closer and closer to North Korea."
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02-10-2012, 02:48 PM
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"But cyber-sophisticated Iranians are still able to circumvent the government by using proxy servers over VPN connections."
Think it might be useful to know how to do that.
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02-10-2012, 02:52 PM
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Iran has been working on creating their own internally based intranet for some time now.
This Radio Free Europe article gives some detail on it.
"Explainer: Iran's National Internet "
But it's most likely that the clamp down is to prevent any problems tomorrow. Feb. 11 is the official anniversary of the Revolution and there's expected to be a huge crowds doing the usual demonstration stuff.
"Iran calls for massive turnout for Bahman 22nd rallies"
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02-10-2012, 07:31 PM
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